COLLEEN - Key Persons
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- Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation / Chief Healthcare Strategy Office
Colleen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology, University of Akron and a corporate Biomimicry Fellow jointly sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. At UA, her dissertation work focuses on integrating inclusive design into bio-inspired design. In the lab, she studies how animal locomotor biomechanics can inspire novel all-terrain mobility aid designs.
At NASA, Colleen works alongside engineers and data scientists to develop an AI design and translation tool (PeTaL) to streamline nature-inspired solution discovery for practitioners. She has also served as the lead organizer for Biocene 2019-2020 and coordinates NASA's V.I.N.E. (Virtual Interchange for Nature-inspired Exploration), a collaborative network of academics, industry experts, and citizen scientists with a shared interest in nature-inspired research.
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- President & CEO / Paragon
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- Associate Dean for Research / Professor of Engineering Education
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- Professor, Polymer Science
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- Vice President, Sales and Marketing
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- Director, Research Institute and Vice President for Research
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Associate Dean in the College of Engineering / the Ohio State University
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- CEO
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President
Dr. Sankovic comes to Ohio Aerospace Institute following a distinguished 31-year career at NASA, where he most recently served as center chief technologist and director of the Office of Technology Incubation and Innovation. There, he received numerous awards, including the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, six Agency Honor Group Achievement Awards and an R&D100 technology innovation award.
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- Vice President for Research & Creative Activity / Dean of the Graduate College / Professor of Physics & Astronomy
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Partner
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Interim Vice President, Research and Innovatio N / Interim Dean, College of Graduate Studies
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- Interim Executive Director
- Manager, Early Stage Investment Funds
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- OFRN, Executive Director / Parallax Advanced Research
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- Executive Assistant
- Secretary of the Board
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- Chairman of the Board
- Independent Trustee